republic-os/legislation/us/states/in/2025/sb-450.md

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Bill	Article V convention.	Changes the defined term of "delegate" to "commissioner" in reference to an individual who is appointed to represent Indiana at an Article V convention. Specifies that an individual must satisfy the following requirements to be appointed as a commissioner or alternate commissioner: (1) have resided in Indiana for the past five years; (2) may not currently be registered as a lobbyist under certain regulations or have been registered within the past five years; and (3) may not have been convicted of a crime of moral turpitude or served any part of a felony sentence within the past 10 years. Provides that it is assumed the general assembly shall appoint three commissioners to represent Indiana at an Article V convention. Requires the commissioners to select a chair for the Article V convention. Prohibits a commissioner or alternate commissioner from accepting a gratuity while serving as a commissioner or alternate commissioner. Requires the general assembly to adopt a joint resolution prohibiting commissioners and alternative commissioners from voting to amend certain provisions of the Constitution of the United States.	us/states/in	Indiana General Assembly	2025	SB 450	Indiana SB 450 (2025)	bill	CRIMINAL LAW AND PROCEDURE; Offenses Against Public Health Order and Decency FEDERAL GOVERNMENT; United States Constitution GENERAL ASSEMBLY; Generally GENERAL ASSEMBLY; Lobbying and Lobbyists STATE GOVERNMENT; Constitution	enacted	Chris Jeter Mike Gaskill Travis Holdman Tyler Johnson	4	23	2	2025-01-13	2025-04-09	openstates	ocd-bill/df27121d-f5fa-4eaa-8bf2-e47641cbe389	https://api.iga.in.gov/2025/bills/sb0450	798731db2b752ff479e851dcfe34007b6cdd2db86d4656f990cb1e4a56ac4381	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-in

Indiana SB 450 (2025) — Article V convention.

Changes the defined term of "delegate" to "commissioner" in reference to an individual who is appointed to represent Indiana at an Article V convention. Specifies that an individual must satisfy the following requirements to be appointed as a commissioner or alternate commissioner: (1) have resided in Indiana for the past five years; (2) may not currently be registered as a lobbyist under certain regulations or have been registered within the past five years; and (3) may not have been convicted of a crime of moral turpitude or served any part of a felony sentence within the past 10 years. Provides that it is assumed the general assembly shall appoint three commissioners to represent Indiana at an Article V convention. Requires the commissioners to select a chair for the Article V convention. Prohibits a commissioner or alternate commissioner from accepting a gratuity while serving as a commissioner or alternate commissioner. Requires the general assembly to adopt a joint resolution prohibiting commissioners and alternative commissioners from voting to amend certain provisions of the Constitution of the United States.

Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. Engrossed Senate Bill (H) (committee substitute) — source
2. Enrolled Senate Bill (S) (committee substitute) — source
3. Introduced Senate Bill (S) (committee substitute) — source
4. Senate Bill (S) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• SB 450 - Jeter - 3rd Reading — 69–27 (pass) · lower
• SB 450 - Holdman - 3rd Reading — 33–16 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Chris Jeter — primary (person)
• Mike Gaskill — primary (person)
• Travis Holdman — primary (person)
• Tyler Johnson — primary (person)
• Dave Hall — cosponsor (person)
• Eric Bassler — coauthor (person)

Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

• 2025-01-13 Authored by Senator Holdman
• 2025-01-13 First reading: referred to Committee on Elections reading-1, referral-committee
• 2025-01-28 Committee report: amend do pass, adopted committee-passage
• 2025-01-30 Senator Gaskill added as second author
• 2025-01-30 Senator Johnson T added as third author
• 2025-01-30 Senator Bassler added as coauthor
• 2025-02-03 Amendment #2 (Ford J.D.) failed; voice vote amendment-failure, failure
• 2025-02-03 Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed reading-2
• 2025-02-03 Amendment #3 (Young M) prevailed; voice vote amendment-passage
• 2025-02-10 Third reading: passed; Roll Call 92: yeas 33, nays 16 passage, reading-3, reading-3
• 2025-02-10 House sponsor: Representative Jeter
• 2025-02-10 Cosponsor: Representative Hall
• 2025-02-11 Referred to the House referral
• 2025-03-03 First reading: referred to Committee on Judiciary reading-1, referral-committee
• 2025-03-17 Committee report: do pass, adopted committee-passage
• 2025-03-20 Second reading: ordered engrossed reading-2
• 2025-03-24 Third reading: passed; Roll Call 300: yeas 69, nays 27 passage, reading-3, reading-3
• 2025-03-25 Returned to the Senate without amendments receipt
• 2025-03-26 Signed by the President Pro Tempore passage
• 2025-03-27 Signed by the Speaker passage
• 2025-04-03 Signed by the President of the Senate passage
• 2025-04-09 Public Law 41 became-law
• 2025-04-09 Signed by the Governor executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/df27121d-f5fa-4eaa-8bf2-e47641cbe389. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).